The advantage of Sokkia emulation is that the Sokkia driver includes a “2-way” setting that will upload configuration settings into the instrument such as units, prism constant and the backsight circle.
It also applies to many non-Sokkia instruments which have a Sokkia or “Set” emulation mode, including Nikon, Pentax and Topcon. The driver applies to all current Sokkia total stations, including the 110M when used in manual mode. This option only applies to Sokkia total stations or to total stations such as Nikon which have a “Sokkia emulation” mode. When stakeout is completed, the horizontal angle is set back to the original value. It is recommended that Nikon instruments be run in Sokkia Set emulation mode, enabling the 2-Way communication.
The 2-Way option has the one big advantage of sending the angle to turn into the instrument during stakeout, so that looking at the instrument panel, you “turn to zero” to aim at the target point. 1-Way vs 2-Way: The 1-Way option mimics the operation of most total station instruments using SurvCE.The following information describes the various options available for the Sokkia Set total stations.
